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A Guide for Success Students, 2nd edition (2023) by Irene Stewart, Aaron Maisonville, and Nikolai Zriachev is licensed by St. Clair College under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Sharealike licence.

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Stewart, I., Maisonville, A., & Zriachev, N. (2023). A guide for successful students, 2nd ed. St. Clair College.

About this book

A Guide for Successful Students 2nd Edition is an adaptation of College Success, a work produced and distributed under a Creative Commons license (CC BY-NC-SA) in 2015 by University of Minnesota.

The revised material in the 1st Edition is copyrighted 2019 by the adapting authors, Irene Stewart and Aaron Maisonville, and is released under a Creative Commons license (CC BY-NC-SA).

The 1st edition adaptation has seen substantial reordering and reformatting of the original College Success 2015 text, minor wording adjustments, addition of new content, replacement of images, and deletions.

The revisions made to the original textbook are listed below.

• Introduction – adapted from Chapt. 1.1
• Successful students have goals – adapted from Chap. 2.1
• Successful students embrace a diverse community – adapted from Chap. 9.1 & 9.2
• Successful students go to class – adapted from Chap. 7
• Successful students ask for help – adapted from Chap. 7.3
• Successful students get it together – adapted from Chap. 2.2 & 2.3
• Successful students take control of their health – adapted from Chap. 10.1 – 10.4 and 10.7
• Successful students practice mental wellness – adapted from Chap. 10.5 and 10.6
• Successful students manage their finance – adapted from Chap. 11
• Successful students get involved – adapted from Chap. 9.1 & 9.3
• Sucessful students learn independently – adapted from Chap. 1.3 & 4.5 (Learning); Chap. 5 (Reading); Chap. 4.4 (Notetaking); Chap. 6.5 & 8 (Writing); Chap. 6.2, 6.3, 6.4, & 6.6 (Studying); Chap. 6.3 (Tests); Chap. 6.2 (Group Work).

The new and revised material in the 2nd Edition is copyrighted 2023 by the adapting authors, Irene Stewart, Aaron Maisonville and Nicolai Zriachev, and and is released under a Creative Commons license (CC BY-NC-SA).

This adaptation added new and revised materials to the 1st edition. The new materials included expanded materials primarily in the Reading, Notetaking and Writing chapters along with the addtion of chapters in the Successful students learn independently section. Original video content and H5P objects were created by Irene Stewart and Nicolai Zirachev. New videos and resources were linked or embedded to enhance the material.

Additonal material was adapted as follows:

• Successful students learn independently – Reading: Seven reading principles and reading graphics sections were adapted from Nissila, P. (2016). How to learn like a pro! CC BY. Open Oregon Educational Resources.
• Successful students learn independently – Notetaking: Introduction and deveop your notetaking style sections were adapted from  Bridging the Gap: A Guide to College-Level Research by Catherine J Gray is licensed under a CC BY License

Ist Edition Background

A  Guide for Successful Students was created to accompany a non-credit series of modules for THRIVES, a project of the Student Services Department of St. Clair College. The intention was to develop a series of modules for students entering first semester that would give them information and tools that would ease their transition to college and through that, support mental wellness. A small team was gathered in February 2018 and THRIVES development began in earnest.

Wanting more than a series of policies and dry facts, the structure based on skillsets, attitudes and behaviours of successful students was taken from the Orientation Family and Friends workshop developed by Bob Birnie and Irene Stewart. So that the modules would cover a wide range of topics that would be useful to students throughout their college years, the OER College Success 2015 published by the University of Minnesota was selected for adaptation.

While the modules will be presented to St. Clair students within our LMS and will contain additional information specific to our college, this Guide is offered to the broader community of learners and educators, wherever you may be, under a Creative Commons license in hopes that you will benefit from our efforts.

The guide was adapted from College Success, University of Minnesota, 2015, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. This work holds the same license unless otherwise noted. Image credits are listed with each image or photo.

This Pressbooks adaptation was made possible with the support of eCampus Ontario. eCampus Ontario supports Ontario post-secondary educators adopting, adapting and creating Open Education Resources by providing access to Pressbooks with H5P plug in and by hosting and maintaining an OER Open Library.

2nd Edition

The THRIVES course rolled out to all 1st semester students at the Windsor and Chatham campuses in the Spring of 2019. Each semester, the THRIVES content was reviewed and new material or adjustments were made. In addition to the videos featuring Irene Stewart, additional videos were added that offered different perspectives and voices. During Spring semester of 2023, Irene Stewart and student LT Rover, Nikolai Zriachev updated the textbook with content and videos used in THRIVES course. In particular, additions have been made to the Successful Students Learn Independently module. Aaron Maisonville reviewed the changes and gave feedback.